Makeover for Dutch PM?

From European Voice's Entre-Nous column

5/26/04, 5:00 PM CET

Updated 4/23/14, 8:30 PM CET

Our attention has been drawn, by a source from a well-known Brussels consultancy who begged us to keep his identity secret – “Or else I’m dead meat” – to a website that disproves the notion that technology geeks, particularly the Netherlands’ variety, have no sense of humour.

Visitors logging on to http://members.chello.nl/nijs/ will find a most amusing game to play, involving the facial rearrangement of Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.

Surfers can restyle to their hearts’ content – with a vast range of hair/moustache/hat arrangements to choose from, that run from the camp to the downright terrifying. Perhaps even Balkenende himself will find inspiration for his next makeover? OK, maybe not…

There is something splendidly parochial about the state-aid investigation launched last week by the European Commission’s competition department into JC Decaux, a French advertising company. The question …